(MoU) with Japanese Agency for International Co-operation
20 February 2007
Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi today
signed a MoU with the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) that will
give effect to the formation of a Training of Trainers Programme between the
African Management Development Institute Network (AMDIN), JICA and the South
African Management Development Institute (SAMDI).
Although the main parties to this MoU are JICA and SAMDI, the programme
being given effect to is a flagship programme for AMDIN. AMDIN is a network
under which all the African Management Development Institutes (MDIs) are coming
together in order to take advantage of the collective knowledge and experience
across the continent, as well as the economy of scale that can be brought to
bear when individual organisations pull together.
Given the common curriculum and training capacity challenges across many
MDIs, SAMDI was requested by the AMDIN Executive Council (ExCo) to mobilise
funds to kick-start the ToT programme to capacitate trainers of the African
MDIs.
This programme is positioned par excellence to serve as an important
catalyst for the massive capacity building agenda that lies ahead for African
countries and specifically their governments in the next decade.
Through this programme, a collective of 200 top trainers spread throughout
all the MDIs in Africa will be created. Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone and
Arabic speaking countries will be accommodated under this programme.
The programme is set to take place over a five year period in which cohorts
of 20 trainers at a time will come to South Africa for 10 days of intensive
training. The first of these cohorts are set to arrive during the weekend of 10
and 11 March 2007. Arrangements are well in advance to welcome them in Pretoria
and put them through a course that SAMDI has customised for the needs of a
diverse African group.
The participants for the March group will be from Anglophone countries in
eastern, western and southern Africa. Thought is already given on how to adjust
the logistics and content of the course to customise it for Francophone
participants in the third round of training.
Trainers, once through the course, will become the nucleus for AMDIN to set
in motion development processes for curriculum and teaching materials across a
range of areas. These will be shared by African MDIs. Areas include, but may
not be limited to:
* globalisation and regional integration
* inter and intra-governmental relations
* public policy development and management
* strategic planning and budgeting;
* leadership and Human Resource Development (HRD)
* public sector restructuring and human resource management
* public finance, budgeting and financial management
* ethics and anti-corruption;
* e-government and knowledge management
* public participation and service delivery.
The current configuration of this programme gives full effect to the
principles of African ownership (AMDIN), using Africa's own expertise where it
exists to share across the continent (SAMDI) but doing so in partnership with
the developed world (Japan), principles that are embraced by the New
Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the African Union (AU).
Further enquiries can be directed to:
Hanlie van Dyk-Robertson,
Acting Chief Executive Officer of AMDIN
Cell: 082 922 3410
Issued by: Department of Public Service and Administration
20 February 2007
